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Cory Booker delivers impassioned speech at Ketanji Brown Jackson hearing

Julia Nikhinson/Bloomberg via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker delivered an impassioned speech on the third day of Ketanji Brown Jackson's Supreme Court confirmation hearings Wednesday. As Jackson wiped away tears, Booker applauded Jackson for her historic nomination to become the first Black woman on the nation's highest court and her path to getting there. "You got here how every Black woman in America who's gotten anywhere has done, by being like Ginger Rogers: 'I did everything Fred Astaire did but backward, in heels,'" Booker said. Despite a long list of credentials, Jackson has faced a barrage of questions from Republicans trying to brand her record as "soft on crime" or entrenched in liberal activism. Some Republicans continuously interrupted Jackson's responses to their questions or yelled in their arguments against her confirmation or credentials. South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham stormed out of the heari

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